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iSimangaliso Wetland Park Bursary 2022-2023
ABOUT THE COMPANY – ISIMANGALISO
We (sagist.co.za team) are pleased to inform you about iSimangaliso Wetland Park Bursary 2022-2023 /read full details.
iSimangaliso Wetland Park, located in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is one of the largest protected area in the country. The park was previously known as the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park, but in 2007 was renamed to iSimangaliso Wetland Park – iSimangaliso means "miracle" and "wonder" in Zulu.
In 1999, the Park was listed as the first World Heritage Site in South Africa, owing to its exquisite beauty. The Park houses 3 major lake systems, 8 interlinking ecosystems, historic fishing traditions, majority of the countries remaining swamp forests, the continents biggest estuarine system, over 500 bird species and over 20 000 year old coastal dunes.
iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority are offering bursary awards to youth who reside in communities surrounding the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in KwaZulu-Natal, and who wish to study in the Conservation or Tourism sector. iSimangaliso has been awarding bursaries since 2010, and has so far funded 98 students.
Bursaries will be awarded for studies in the following fields:
Conservation and related fields, including:
Nature Conservation (Diploma)
Wildlife Studies
Park Infrastructure:
Business, Tourism and Hospitality:
Accounting (including Chartered Accounting, Cost and Management Accounting, Internal Auditing, Taxation)
Business Science
Cultural and Heritage Tourism
Hospitality and Catering Management
Development Facilitation
Development Planning
Environmental Journalism
Environmental Planning and Development
Organisational Psychology
Town and Regional Planning
MORE ABOUT THE BURSARY PROGRAMME – COVERAGE VALUE & OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
The bursary may provide cover for the following expenses: books, accommodation, meals, travel, laptop, data and other expenses (they will not cover tuition fees – that is for NSFAS expense).
Over and above the financial assistance, bursary recipients may also receive academic and psychosocial support, to help students adjust to university life and get support needed to pass – this will be conducted through REAP, iSimangaliso's partner organisation.
Bursary recipients will also have the opportunity to take part in skills development workshops and community service initiatives during the holidays – this will improve work readiness.
Must be a resident of a land claimant communities from iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority (including: Bhangazi, Dukuduku, Emandleni, Jobe, Mabaso, Makhasa, Mbila-Triangle, Mdletsheni, Mnqobokazi, Ngwenya, Nside, Sokhulu, Western Shores and Coastal Reserves
Must be a resident of the Umkhanyakude District Municipality (in areas surrounding iSimangaliso Wetland Park) or Umfolozi Local Municipality (especially the Sokhulu area)
Must be currently in Matric OR have completed Matric
Must have achieved a minimum overall average of 55% in most recent results (Grade 11 or Matric)
Must have been accepted to start your 1st year of study in one of the aforementioned fields of study
Must have been accepted to study at one of the following public tertiary institutions in South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal / University of Johannesburg / University of the Western Cape / University of the Free State / Nelson Mandela University / Central University of Technology
Must have applied for NSFAS funding or have proof that you have been successfully awarded a NSFAS bursary
Applications can be done in either of the following ways:
1) Apply online for the iSimangaliso Bursary
2) Download and complete the iSimangaliso Bursary Application Form (.pdf)
Hard copy application forms and documents must be submitted to:
The iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority, The Dredger Harbour, St Lucia, 3639
Submit clear copies of the following supporting documentation along with your application (online or with your hard copy application form) (the submission of these documents is compulsory – if any items are missing, your application be disregarded):
Most recent academic results (Grade 11 or Matric) (certified copy)
Proof of NSFAS bursary application
Residents of a land claimant communities from iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority: official letter from Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of your land claim Trust, confirming your membership of the land claim community
Residents of the Umkhanyakude District Municipality or Umfolozi Local Municipality: official letter from local leader/ counsellor, confirming your residence in area and duration of time you have been residing there
Proof of acceptance to study at: UKZN / UJ / UWC / UFS / NMU / CUT
Motivational letter, explaining why you should be awarded the iSimangaliso Bursary (maximum 100 words)
Applications are currently closed and no applications will be accepted for the 2021/ 2022 academic year.
Applications will be reopen from September 2021 for the 2022 academic year.
For any queries related to this bursary programme, please contact iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority directly:
Contact people: Nosipho Ngcobo / Ntsikelelo Kulati
Email: nosipho@isimangaliso.com / ntsikelelo@isimangaliso.com
Please do NOT contact the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority if this bursary has already closed. View our other bursaries open for application here: https://www.zabursaries.co.za/bursary-news/
This bursary listing was last updated on: 5 April 2021.


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Welcome to Pluto! Dramatic Flyover Video Takes You There
View of Pluto captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015.
(Image: © NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
A new video takes armchair explorers on a flyover tour of Pluto's stunning and varied landscapes.
The new Pluto tour animation stitches together photos captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby on July 14, which returned the first-ever up-close looks at the faraway dwarf planet.
During the close encounter, New Horizons discovered, among other things, 2-mile-high (3.2 kilometers) ice mountains, a vast plain of ice dubbed Sputnik Planum and a dark area called Cthulhu Regio. All those features are highlighted in the new video, which was created by Stuart Robbins, a research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. [See more Pluto photos by New Horizons]
"I primarily use these images to map craters across the surfaces of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, to understand the population of impactors from the Kuiper Belt striking Pluto and Charon," Robbins wrote in a blog post Friday (Sept. 18). (The Kuiper Belt is the ring of icy bodies, including Pluto, that lies beyond Neptune's orbit.)
"While this is my research focus, another interest of mine is figuring out how to make visualizations that convey some of the sheer beauty and power of the features New Horizons is revealing," Robbins added. "With that in mind, I've created a new animation/flyover of Pluto using images returned this month by New Horizons."
The video tour features resolutions ranging from 1,300 feet (400 meters) per pixel to 1.3 miles (2.1 km) per pixel.
View of Pluto captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015. (Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
The animation takes viewers as close to Pluto's surface as 120 miles (200 km) and zooms out to an altitude of more than 1,500 miles (2,500 km), Robbins wrote. This apparent proximity is provided by New Horizons' telescopic camera, for the probe itself did not actually get so close; New Horizons zoomed past the dwarf planet at a minimum distance of 7,800 miles (12,550 km) on July 14.
Earlier this month, New Horizons began beaming home the vast majority of the images and data collected during the close encounter. Mission team members said they expect this relay work will take about a year to complete. So space enthusiasts can look forward to seeing many more great new images, and videos, of Pluto in the future.
"The concept of this animation arose from a desire to showcase the most recent imagery received from the spacecraft and the huge variety of terrain types that we see on Pluto," Robbins wrote. "I can hardly wait until we get even better imagery — up to seven times better pixel scale — that's still to come of select areas of the surface and to see what new surprises Pluto has in store."

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Facing the Mediterranean (Part 3)
In the eyes of some, Kampala has indeed fallen in a way, first when leading local tabloids published the names of suspected gay Ugandans, then followed by the 2014 passing of the Anti-Homosexuality Act criminalising same sex relations – proposing life imprisonment and penalties for individuals, companies, media/other organizations supporting homosexuals (although it was later overturned by the courts). The outing by tabloids put the lives of those mentioned at risk, making some leave Uganda and seek asylum elsewhere. The Act generated an atmosphere of fear and insecurity for sexual minorities thanks to the high political temperatures raised both inside and outside Uganda, and it is no coincidence that it was in 2014 – after the passage of the bill – that the number of Ugandans crossing into Kenya increased markedly.
After spending time in Kampala, listening to different perspectives, I knew I had also to speak to UNHCR and other organisations working around this crisis in Kenya, in order to fill in the picture that was emerging.
In early 2011, a group of Ugandans on a journey to an unknown destination was intercepted by Kenyan police in the Northern Kenya town of Lodwar. On interrogation, the group told the police they were Ugandan lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex asylum seekers escaping from Uganda. They were on their way to seek refuge at the Kakuma refugee camp, not too far away from Lodwar. At this point, the police didn't know what to do with them.
They resorted to making one phone call.
"Ray*, come and see your people," a policeman told a gentleman on the other end.
Ray quickly understood what the police meant by 'his people'.
Ray works for an organization that runs support programmes for LGBTI refugees and asylum seekers both in Lodwar and at Kakuma. The only difference was that he had never interacted with Ugandan asylum seekers before. This was the first batch of LGBTI Ugandans arriving in Kakuma, now famous for having their cases expedited. Today, four years later, over two hundred Ugandan asylum seekers have gone through Kakuma, and they persist in the hope they will get lucky and be resettled.
Yet this dream proves elusive to most refugees. UNHCR points out that there are 13 million refugees spread across the world – with over 586,000 in Kenya as of May 2015 – and that only 100,000 of the global refugee population can be resettled annually, a mere 7-8%.[1]
According to Eva Camps, a Senior UNHCR Protection Officer based in Nairobi, someone must have misled the Ugandan refugees and asylum seekers in Nairobi who are now demanding financial assistance and the fast tracking of their resettlement, which they should know isn't guaranteed. She reiterates UNHCR's procedures – which she says the Ugandans have been made aware of time and again – saying that asylum seeking is a long and tedious journey. That the UNHCR is bound by rules and procedures within which it must operate – regardless of exceptions that may have been made for the earlier arrivals from Uganda.
The same message is reinforced by George Onyore, a Legal Officer from Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) Kenya, UNHCR's NGO implementing partner. George says there are hundreds of other vulnerable urban refugees and asylum seekers, aside from the Ugandans. They include unaccompanied minors, the terminally ill, the elderly, and so on. For this reason, he says, the scarce resources shared between HIAS and UNHCR have to be used sparingly. HIAS does a continuous assessment of the needs of all refugees and asylum seekers and, based on this assessment, specific assistance is given to individuals who are found to be most needy. In this situation, blanket assistance cannot be extended to the Ugandans.
But no one disagrees that the issue of LGBTI refugees and asylum seekers is a complicated one.
According to Rachel Levitan, Associate Vice President of Global Programs, Strategy and Planning for HIAS – who has worked on the issue of LGBTI refugees and asylum seekers for close to seven years – refugee protection, assistance and relief are not simple processes. These have been further complicated by the unexpectedly high refugee flows of the past five years, she says, and in the case of Kenya the granting of asylum is delayed by increased security concerns. Aside from the urgent need for funds to cushion all at-risk refugees including LGBTI asylum seekers, Levitan says there's always need to safeguard both the refugees and asylum seekers alongside their host communities, to diffuse inevitable tensions and incidents between the two.
For Eric Gitari, Executive Director of the Kenyan National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC), the situation faced by the Ugandans is dire. Yet, he says that unless the Ugandans understand the predicament they are facing, it won't be easy bailing them out. Whatever UNHCR's shortcomings, he says, at the end of the day the Ugandans have to work closely with whoever is trying to assist them. He says the Kenyan LGBTI movement plays a double role as both a partner to UNHCR and a support for the Ugandans. Sometimes they advocate for the Ugandans by pushing their case with UNHCR; sometimes they play on the side of UNHCR in reiterating its positions to the Ugandans.
In February 2013, HIAS published a report, by Yiftach Millo, entitled Invisible In The City: Protection Gaps Facing Sexual Minority Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Urban Ecuador, Ghana, Israel, and Kenya. It points out that the needs of LGBTI asylum seekers become invisible because it is near impossible for them to quantify their exact level of urgent need.
'Although the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has made significant strides in its headquarters and in some country operations to protect sexual minority refugees, protection in the field remains extremely limited. Their protection is affected by a general misconception of lack of need and urgency resulting from the 'invisibility' of their plight,' reads a section of the report, before going on to state that 'persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI) is often the motivating factor for flight, but is seldom expressed as such by refugees and asylum seekers themselves.'
Adrian Jjuuko, Executive Director of the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Foundation (HRAPF) – the leading LGBTI litigation organisation in Uganda – says the majority of Ugandan LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees find it hard to quantify then qualify what is considered persecution. This is because persecution is a deeply personal experience, and sometimes what passes as persecution in an individual's life might not hold water when they are subjected to the legal rigours. This has led to many escapees forging documents, including warrants of arrest which, when referred to his organisation for verification, are often found to be fake. Yet this doesn't mean the escapee using fake documents was never persecuted, only that their true story of persecution might not be electrifying, and so they seek alternative narratives.
Some Ugandan LGBTI refugees and asylum seekers feel comfortable telling their secrets to Makerere University's Dr. Stella Nyanzi of the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), who they simply call Mama Stella. Dr. Nyanzi doesn't tell me the secrets the escapees have deposited but she paints me a two-hour picture. She says, simply, that here are human beings trying to make the best out of the situation in which they have found themselves. Some have even invited her to sleep on their couches if she visits the countries in which they hope to be resettled. They might not even own couches in Kampala, she says, but their hope is that one day they will – in their new lives.
Dr. Nyanzi says things get tough, especially for transgender women. They tell her they want to go to the market and buy a skirt, but this is impossible to do in Kenya because how do you even try on the skirt? So they do it when they sneak back into Uganda. In Uganda they know their way around. Similarly, they will sneak back to Uganda to try and find work because making a living in Kenya is harder for them than in Kampala – or because the food they can afford in Kenya is terrible. Sometimes, she says, having that skirt can mean feeling dignified. These are the little details that get overlooked.
In the meantime, the Ugandans remain holed up in the slums of Nairobi, where they live illegally. The Kenyan government recently ordered all urban refugees to relocate to refugee camps due to the suspicion that Somali refugees were harbouring members of Al Shabaab. UNHCR says this creates a precarious security situation in which it is very difficult to provide protection to the over 52,000 refugees and asylum seekers currently residing in Nairobi.
On the morning of 19 April 2015 the world woke up to news of the death at sea of over 700 Africans whose vessel capsized off the Libyan coast. They were on their way to Europe. The House of Kongo, as @MvembaDizolele calls himself on Twitter, asked, "How do you face the Mediterranean and still decide to forge ahead?" #Africa was his hashtag of choice.
One might ask the same of the Ugandans.
Why do they live in deplorable conditions in refugee camps knowing resettlement isn't guaranteed, or that if it comes it might take up to three years? Why do they squeeze into cubicles in Nairobi slums, hoping for survival money when there are no guarantees it will come? Why do they choose to face their particular Mediterranean?
To these and other questions, I never found any one consistent answer.
[1] Data provided by Eva Camps, Senior Protection Officer at UNHCR Nairobi.
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Sunedison Shares Rebound From Lows; Analysts Don't Seem Concerned With Appaloosa Suit News
Amy Weingarden
Investors in SunEdison Inc (NYSE: SUNE) received a spook Wednesday morning, as a Reuters report of a suit against the company by David Tepper and Appaloosa Investment Limited Partnership hit newswires.
While shares initially moved higher following the opening bell at 9:30 a.m. EST, sellers stepped in after about 15 minutes to take the stock to a session low at $2.50, down about 18 percent. Over the course of the morning session, and amid seemingly reassuring comments from a couple Wall Street analysts, SunEdison shares are now trading just 3 percent lower.
The Benzinga Newsdesk, reaching out to the New Castle County Chancery Court in Delaware, has since confirmed the suit by Appaloosa related to TerraForm Power Inc. (NASDAQ: TERP)'s deal with Vivint Solar Inc (NYSE: VSLR).
Noted analyst Gordon Johnson of Axiom Capital, whose bearish comments on Benzinga's PreMarket Prep show contributed to a large selloff in SunEdison on Tuesday, seemed a bit skeptical about the apparent impact of Wednesday morning's news on the stock.
Johnson, speaking with Benzinga, pointed to the fact that TerraForm Power had previously offered, in filings with the SEC, a warning that SunEdison could harm shareholders in TerraForm.
Avondale's Michael Morosi offered several outcomes related to the report of the suit, suggesting that two of those scenarios could be wins for SunEdison.
"...the most likely scenario is that within the next two weeks SunEdison announces a deal to sell Vivint's operating assets to a third-party institutional investor and outlines its intent to find an offtaker for the development pipeline," Morosi said.
Another option, according to the Avondale analyst, would be an indefinite postponement of the deal until the suit is resolved.
Morosi said (emphasis Benzinga's):
"Depending on the outcome of the lawsuit, SUNE may have grounds to elect a "material adverse change" clause, allowing the company to break the transaction. While this would imply a reduction to run-rate deliveries and cash earnings, given resi's expected positive contribution to corporate average gross margin, note this outcome would have the effect of removing a key overhang for SUNE's shares leading to a potential re-rating of the shares."
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Chile - Peru 2009
Cusco, Peru to Home
(via Lima and Miami)
Our Chilean cousins, having an earlier flight, left the hotel in mid-morning. After they left the rest of us walked around Cusco for the last time and returned to the hotel for lunch.
We left the hotel for the airport at around 2:30 pm. After paying our airport fee, we boarded our plane for the one hour flight to Lima. In Lima, we had a nearly six hour layover. We thought we could check in and leave our luggage so we could roam the airport without lugging our bags around. Unfortunately, American Airlines didn't even open its check in positions until a little over two hours before flight time. After going through a lengthy security and check in process, we were able to go through the main security area to the boarding area where we managed to get something to eat.
The flight from Lima to Miami was a relatively short 5 1/2 hours and we landed at around 6 am, 15 minutes ahead of schedule. The US cousins now separated for our independent journey home. Susie and I had another 5 hour layover in Miami and finally boarded a flight at 11:30 flight to JFK. By the time we got to the house at 3:30 pm we had spent 25 hours in traveling from Cusco.
I can only describe this trip as great. Tiring, but great. The first week was primarily a family affair culminating in the wedding of Avital and Jonathan. We had plenty of family "togetherness" time during the week. Our togetherness continued with our trip to Peru. All of us, except my brother who opted to visit the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, headed for Cusco and the center of the Inca Empire. Peru was one of those once in a lifetime trips. Cusco, once the capital of the Inca Empire, was a fascinating combination of Inca and Spanish culture. The Spaniards destroyed the Inca structures and built their churches and other buildings on top of the remaining foundations. The Plaza de Armas was typical of the Spanish plan. The Cathedral is built on the remains of an Inca Temple and the building fronting the plaza have porticos common to the Spanish construction in the Americas (Santa Fe, NM is a good example in North America). Today, these buildings house stores, including a McDonald's. Machu Picchu is all that it was advertised to be. Ollantaytambo was fascinating both in its historical and current form. The trip through the Sacred Valley was beautiful and we had a good time in each of the stops.
On our last breakfast in Cusco, my cousin Leo made a toast to our parents. Because of their strength and fortitude in surviving the horrors of the Holocaust we were able to come together and celebrate their legacy. So where do we go next...
Leo's Quest
Leo's quest was to find the locations he visited 45 years ago. Below are his comments.
My traveling companions and guides on our trip to the Cusco and Sacred Valley area of Peru know how important and enjoyable it was for me to be able to revisit locations that I last had seen 45 years ago. I thank you for your help and patience in that regard.
I am including in this e-mail some of the more striking photographs that I have comparing 1964 (on the left) and 2009 (on the right). I hope you enjoy them.
Except where indicated in five instances below, I took all the 1964 and 2009 photos.
Calle Santa Clara wall of Cusco's Cine Teatro Garcilaso de la Vega, now the Teatro Kusikay, located at Calle Union 117.
Train between Cusco and Machu Picchu. Food service previously was provided by local vendors at train stations. PeruRail now provides on-board food service and a fashion show on the Vistadome trains for tourists. Tourists no longer are permitted on local trains.
1964 view of Machu Picchu from Hiuayna Picchu. 2009 view from approximately 180 degrees in the opposite direction.
At the Machu Picchu end of the Inca Trail from Cusco. [2009 photo by Leopoldo Levi.]
Switchback road from the Urubamba River valley to the entrance to the Machu Picchu complex.
View of Main Square area of Machu Picchu. 1964 view is from Huayna Picchu. 2009 view from lower angle and approximately 180 degrees in the opposite direction (and Huayna Picchu is hidden in the mist). A small pillar that was near the center of the Main Square in 1964 no longer is there (reportedly removed to permit a helicopter to land with visiting dignitaries).
The peak of Putucusi, across the Urubamba River from Machu Picchu.
Classic views of Machu Piccchu and Huayna Pichu -- 1964 and 2009. (That pillar is barely visible at the left edge of the 1964 photo.)
Note the extensive reconstruction since 1964 in this area of Machu Picchu.
Terrace structure at Ollantaytambo.
View from an upper terrace at Ollantaytambo. (The angle of view is a bit different.)
View from the main terrace structure at Ollantaytambo toward the hillside on the opposite side of town.
Close-up of 1964 image -- and 2009 photo of the same location. (Has the nose on the natural "face" in the hillside eroded since 1964?) [2009 photo by Martha Levy.]
Cantilevered steps on the side of an Ollantaytambo terrace. [2009 photo by Leopoldo Levi.]
Typical Inca doorway and stonework at Ollantaytambo terraces. (The orange stuff on the rocks is lichen that has remained much the same since 1964.) [2009 photo by David Machicao Olivera.]
Baño de la Ñusta ("Bath of the Princess") at the base of the main Ollantaytambo terrace structure.
Inca construction channeled a stream through a plaza near the foot of the main Ollantaytambo terrace structure. By 2009, the area had become a location for vendors' stalls just outside the entrance gate to the terraces. (There was no gate or entrance fee in 1964.) Just past the lightpole in the distance on the left of the 2009 photo is the outside wall of the Tawachaki Restaurant and Pizzeria, where we had dinner on November 12th and where the proprietor told me that the plaza I was seeking was on the side of the restaurant.
The Inka Bridge on the outskirts of Ollantaytambo. (Note the piers that had been built since 1964 -- and then abandoned.) [2009 photo by Samuel Hess.]
The Pisac Market has undergone extensive renovation. (Two views each from 1964 and 2009.)


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The 22 member states of the European Space agency have pledged to boost their funding to support more missions and research projects, including a new generation of satellites to monitor climate change
The 22 member states of the European Space agency pledged Thursday to boost their funding to support more missions and research projects, including a new generation of satellites to monitor climate change.
The agency's director-general, Jan Woerner, said at the conclusion two-day ministerial meeting in Seville, Spain, that member states pledged a record three-year budget of 12.5 billion euros ($13.7 million) plus an additional 1.9 billion euros to cover operational costs and basic research in years four and five.
"14.4 billion euros. For me it is surprise. It is even more than I proposed," said Woerner. "We have taken on some ambitious projects."
Woerner said that "climate change is a strong driver" in a bigger-than-expected funding boost for Europe's Copernicus Earth-observation satellites.
"Copernicus is now the world's leading Earth-observation project," he said. "This shows all the support for an awareness of our planet, and I think it is good because taxpayers are asking (governments) to do something and you can only do something if you know what to do."
Spain's Science Minister Pedro Duque added that climate research is also where industry wants to be. Madrid is hosting the United Nations global climate meeting from Dec. 2-13.
"We have the most advanced set of Earth observation satellites flying, so everyone in every industry wants to be involved in developing the top technology because this is a place where European companies can get ahead of companies in the rest of the world," Duque said.
Other missions getting backing included sending the first European astronaut to the Moon, the building of a space shuttle and parts of a planned lunar space station, researching black holes, and safety projects to remove space debris and detect asteroids.
Germany will be largest single funder, with 22.9 percent of the total.
One of ESA's main goals, according to the ministerial meeting, is also to ensure that European countries keep pace in space exploration with competition from the United States, newcomers like China, and growing interest from the private sector.
"For me, this ministerial (meeting) has one very clear message. This is united space in Europe, all states working together and not competing," Woerner said.
Quelle: abcNews
Europe's new space budget to enable CO2 mapping
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Image captionThe new Copernicus satellites would build more detailed maps of CO2 than is currently possible
Europe will press ahead with a network of satellites to track carbon dioxide emissions across the globe.
They will be developed out of a new European Space Agency (Esa) budget agreed in Seville, Spain.
Research ministers on Thursday approved a package of proposals worth some €14.4bn (£12.3bn/$15.9bn) over the next five years.
As well as the new CO2 monitoring system, the funds will also pave the way for missions to the Moon and Mars.
Media captionEsa DG Jan Wörner: "Europe wants to be strong on exploration"
"You're looking at a very happy DG," said Jan Wörner, the director general of Esa, after getting pretty much everything he wanted from the "Space19+" Ministerial Council. "It always looks so simple. But it took more than two years of preparations to get here. Unbelievable!"
While there were multiple projects being considered here, it is the support given to Earth observation (EO) that catches the eye.
Delegates from 22 nations had been asked to pledge €1.4bn (£1.2bn) to expand the so-called Copernicus programme, which flies a suite of Sentinel satellites to track the health of the planet. At the end of two days of discussions, the actual figure committed was €1.8bn (£1.5bn).
The extra cash will enable Esa to improve the performance of the new Sentinels.
Media captionEsa EO director Josef Aschbacher: The Copernicus decision at this meeting is "stunning"
The three spacecraft that will make up the carbon dioxide constellation will have their resolution increased, to be able to map grid squares across the globe of just 2km across. And their swath - the width of their vision - will be increased from 200km to nearly 300km. In addition, the satellites will be given more instruments to help tease apart the CO2 coming from natural sources from that which is being produced by humans.
The enhanced capability is expected to be a potent tool in helping all nations - not just European ones - better understand their carbon footprint.
Esa wants to get the new Sentinel system launched by 2025/26, to align its mapping service with the global stocktake of emissions that will be undertaken in 2028 as part of the Paris climate deal.
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Image captionUK industry would like to build a rover as part of a plan to return Mars samples to Earth
As well as CO2-sensing satellites, the expanded Copernicus programme will develop five other systems to measure a range of Earth variables, from the extent of Arctic sea-ice to the temperature of the global land surface.
The impressive backing for these new Earth observing spacecraft was driven largely by Germany, which pledged €518m (£444m) of the total €1.8bn. Its industry will now get the bulk of the R&D contracts.
"Earth observation is the cornerstone of German space policy," said Thomas Jarzombek, from the nation's Economic Affairs Ministry.
"People are more and more interested in climate change and what we can do to protect ourselves against it. Information is key because we can only really act against climate change if we understand what it going on. Copernicus gives us better data," he told BBC News.
It should be stated that Copernicus is a joint venture between Esa and the EU, with the latter covering 70% of the overall costs. Brussels' contribution to the expansion programme has yet to be determined.
"There is today about €6bn (£5.1bn) foreseen as part of the [EU] budget for space. And we look forward to completing the constellation with the recurring [satellites] which are to be paid for by the EU along with, of course, their operation," explained Esa EO director, Josef Aschbacher.
Across the entire Space19+ budget request, the top contributing countries were:
Germany - €3.3bn (£2.8bn), which is a 23% share of the total budget
France - €2.7bn (£2.3bn), which is an 18.5% share
Italy - €2.3bn (£1.8bn), which is 16%
UK - €1.6bn (£1.4bn), which is 11.5%
The UK's subscription after this meeting will rise from €355m (£304m) per year to €440m (£377m) per year.
Graham Peters, the chair of the trade association UKSpace sees this as a positive outcome.
"It gives us a fantastic platform upon which we can now build the national space programme to develop new sovereign capabilities and to start collaborating more globally to drive exports," he said.
Image copyrightESA
Image captionArtwork: The Hera mission would study an object previously struck by an American probe
Other highlights to come out of Space19+
Human spaceflight and robotic exploration - This near-€2bn programme was 98% subscribed. It will make Esa an important partner in the US space agency's (Nasa) grand plan to return astronauts to the Moon - known as Artemis. Member states committed money in Seville to fund two propulsion units for the Americans' Orion crew capsules. Cash was also made available to start development work on modules that will attach to a lunar space station called Gateway. On Mars exploration, the agency now has the money to advance missions to bring rock samples back to Earth from the Red Planet. Technologies for this include a surface rover that UK engineers would very much like to build.
Science - Valued at €2.8bn, all member states must contribute to the projects that fall under this umbrella. The 10% increase in this budget line is the first real-terms increase in 25 years. One of the benefits will be to provide the funding necessary to align the development path of a couple of very exciting observatories. Esa is building a big X-ray space telescope called Athena and a constellation of satellites, known as Lisa, that could detect the gravitational waves from colliding black holes. It would be best if they could be flown at the same time to study comic events in tandem. The money promised at this council should now make this possible.
Image captionSpace Rider could carry experimental payloads into orbit and then later bring them back down
Space transportation - In recent times, it has been arguments of the future development over Europe's rockets that have bedevilled Esa ministerial meetings. Not this time. Differences of opinion on how to finish, financially support and further innovate the new vehicles known as Ariane 6 and Vega C were settled on the eve of the meeting. France, Germany and Italy dominate this programme area which will be receiving €2.2bn from the new budget. In the plan is an Italian-led project to launch a reusable mini robotic shuttle called Space Rider. It will carry experimental payloads into orbit and back. A first certification flight will take place in 2022.
Space safety and security - This area, worth just over €540m, is all about protection - of space infrastructure and of Earth itself. Put before ministers was a satellite concept known as Lagrange that would stare at the Sun to warn of outbursts that could damage other spacecraft and interfere with radio communications and power grids on Earth. It's a project primarily of interest to the UK. It didn't receive all the money it needed and a decision was taken to work only on the spacecraft's instrument for now. At the last ministerial council, member states rejected an asteroid encounter mission. The decision drew criticism because of our need to study objects that could hit - and devastate - the Earth. In response, Esa designed a new mission for subscription called Hera, and this time it won the financial support needed to proceed. Hera will visit a space rock that has previously been bombarded by a Nasa mission to learn more about how threatening asteroids could be deflected.
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The Center City Vaccination Center is now providing second dose vaccinations
March 25, 2021 James Garrow Board of Health, Department of Public Health
Note: This blog post is no longer being updated. For the latest information about COVID-19 in Philadelphia, please visit the COVID-19 website.
UPDATE: You can find the latest information on the Center City Vaccination Center at https://www.phila.gov/ccvc.
On March 2nd, the City of Philadelphia, in partnership with FEMA, launched the largest COVID-19 vaccination site in southeastern Pennsylvania. Capable of vaccinating up to 6,000 Philadelphians every day, this site quickly established itself as a model of efficiency and safety, and was able to vaccinate more than 100,000 Philadelphians in the first few weeks. The clinic was divided into three distinct phases: three weeks of first doses, three weeks of second doses, and two weeks of single-doses.
First doses
The plan for the Center City Vaccination Center was that they would provide first doses of Pfizer vaccine for three weeks. After two weeks, the City and FEMA changed their model to ensure that Philadelphians who live in zip codes with the lowest vaccination rates can get equitable access. This walk-up model significantly improved racial equity in vaccine administration over the first two weeks of the clinic.
Second doses
After three weeks of providing first doses to 121,703 Philadelphia residents, the CCVC switched operations to begin giving these folks their second doses and getting them fully vaccinated.
Problem Appointments
While the Health Department was planning for the switchover, it was discovered that a number of people had signed up for appointments to get their first dose on days that were only supposed to be for people to get their second dose. While the City wants everyone to be vaccinated, this clinic can only handle people who are there for second doses.
The Health Department went through and canceled more than 11,000 of these invalid appointments and has worked to remind folks that if they didn't get a first dose of vaccine there they should not show up at the Convention Center. This should no longer be a problem as there are no more first doses being given at the Center City Vaccination Center.
Anyone that got their first dose of vaccine at the Center City Vaccination Center should show up on the day of their appointment. If they are unsure about when their appointment is, they should bring the vaccine card they got during their first visit and they'll be let in to get a second dose.
Single doses
After everyone who is eligible gets their second doses, the Center City Vaccination Center will reconfigure again to provide the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Stay tuned and be sure to sign up on the City's VaccineInterest form to be ready for when appointments are available.
Getting to the Center City Vaccination Center
There are many transportation options available to meet the needs of residents traveling to the Center City Vaccination Center. The Pennsylvania Convention Center is accessible using SEPTA public transit and Customized Community Transportation (CCT) services, rideshare, taxi, or personal vehicle. Parking facilities are available to accommodate personal vehicles and loading zones have been created for drop-offs and pick-ups at the entrance and exit.
The entrance to the Center City Vaccination Center is at the northeast corner of 12th and Arch Streets. Individuals with appointments should use 100 N. 12th Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 as the GPS address. After being vaccinated, individuals will exit at the northwest corner of 11th and Arch Streets.
SEPTA Public Transportation Options
The Pennsylvania Convention Center is a block away from SEPTA's Jefferson Station which is serviced by eleven Regional Rail lines, the Market-Frankford line and bus routes: 17, 23, 33, 38, 44, 47, 47M, 48, 61, and 62. Individuals are highly encouraged to use public transit resources to get to and from their appointments at the Center City Vaccination Center.
SEPTA continues to promote safe and healthy travel during the pandemic. Masks are required, and employee-ambassadors will reinforce this mandate and give out free masks as part of the Mask Force Philly program. More information on SEPTA service and COVID-19 can be found at septa.org/covid-19.
This web-based map shows all transit routes to the PCC, and this static map shows frequent routes to the PCC.
Seniors Ride Free on Transit
Adults age 65 and older can ride free at all times on SEPTA buses, trackless trolleys, trolleys, Broad Street and Market Frankford lines, and Regional Rail.
Seniors may ride free by using one of the following:
PA Driver's License (with magnetic stripe only, issued before July 2017)
PA Non-Driver Identification Card (with magnetic stripe only, issued before July 2017)
Senior Ride Free Key card
To register for a Senior Ride Free Key card, SEPTA is offering same day service by appointment only at SEPTA Headquarters (1234 Market St., Concourse Level, Philadelphia PA 19107). To make an appointment, call 215-580-7145 and press #6. Call center hours are Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. At your appointment, you will need to provide an ID that verifies your date-of-birth.
Reduced Transit Fare for People with Disabilities Under Age 65
Individuals under age 65 with a qualifying disability can ride at half-fare at all times on SEPTA buses, trackless trolleys, trolleys, Broad Street and Market Frankford lines, and Regional Rail. Registration information below.
To register, SEPTA is offering same day service by appointment only at SEPTA Headquarters (1234 Market St., Concourse Level, Philadelphia, PA 19107). To make an appointment, call 215-580-7145 and press #6. Call center hours are Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Eligibility criteria and application information can be found here.
SEPTA CCT Connect Service
SEPTA Customized Community Connect (CCT) is available to seniors and individuals with disabilities and/or access and functional needs that are registered with SEPTA CCT.
SEPTA will be on-site at the Center City Vaccination Center seven days a week to make CCT reservations for second dose vaccination appointments. The representative will also be available to provide information and answer questions about other SEPTA services, including the Senior Ride Free Key card and the Reduced Transit Fare card for People with Disabilities.
ADA Pick-Up and Drop-Off
A designated drop-off point with ADA accessibility will be located on the south side of the 100-200 block of N. 12th Street, between Arch and Race Streets.
A designated pick-up point with ADA accessibility will be located on the northeast corner of 1100 Arch Street, between 11th and 12th Streets.
Taxi, Rideshare, and Privately Owned Vehicles
Designated drop-off points for rideshare, taxi, and privately owned vehicles will be located on the northside of 100 N. 12th Street, between Arch and Race Streets.
Designated pick-up points for rideshare, taxi, and privately owned vehicles will be located on the 0-100 block of N. 11th Street, between Market and Arch Streets.
There are nearly 30 private parking garages and lots within five blocks of the PCC and the clinic entrance—totalling over 10,000 parking spaces. The PCC website lists various options, and there are several parking apps that can help locate available parking resources. The following parking garages are offering discounted rates for 2-hour parking. Rates must be validated by showing the vaccination card given to individuals after receiving their vaccine.
The Autopark at the Fashion District
45 N. 10th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
$5 for 2-hour parking
Parkway Broad and Race Garage
150 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
$10 for 2-hour parking
Parkway 12th & Filbert Garage
1201 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Additionally, from Wednesday, March 3 to Thursday, April 1, the Philadelphia Parking Authority will provide complimentary parking between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. at its three SEPTA regional rail lots referenced below.
Fern Rock Rail Station Lot
10th & Nedro Streets
Fox Chase Rail Station Lot
500 Rhawn Street
Torresdale Rail Station Lot
4900 Grant Avenue
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Home » Arable » Sugar beet set to make a comeback in Scotland
Sugar beet set to make a comeback in Scotland
Richard Halleron
Jun 15, 2021, 4:41pm
The reintroduction of sugar beet production to Scotland has taken a significant step forward after the pilot project laying its foundations received new funding. The first successful crop in half a century was harvested last year. As a result, the consortium behind the initiative – which includes the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC), has secured a funding boost from Scottish Enterprise to analyse its potential environmental, societal and economic impact.
Sugar beet study
The study will examine the widespread benefits that are expected to follow on from the crop's return to Scotland.
Sugar beet is seen as a key building block for the development of sustainable supply chains and a 'bioeconomy', which uses natural materials instead of petrochemical compounds in manufacturing.
A local source of sugar beet could pave the way for the development of an ethanol-producing biorefinery in Grangemouth – the hub of Scotland's chemicals and petrochemical processing industries – and later support a fully functioning bio-based chemicals industry.
Sugar beet and ethanol demand
According to those involved, sugar beet can be used in the production of ethanol as a natural and sustainable substitute for petroleum-based chemicals used in a range of household goods, as well as antibiotics and therapeutic proteins.
Demand for ethanol in Scotland is expected to double in the coming years to more than 100 million litres, yet all of the country's supply is currently imported from Europe. Ian Archer, technical director at IBioIC, said: "Growing sugar beet in Scotland once again is a huge opportunity to reinvent the economy, build sustainability into manufacturing supply chains, and secure jobs for the future.
"Many of the biggest consumer goods manufacturers have committed to net-zero carbon targets over the next two decades and a big part of that drive will be replacing the use of petrochemicals with natural materials.
"You cannot have a chemicals industry without a feedstock, and to retain the sector in Scotland we need a local supply and the supply chains that follow," he added. "In northern Europe, that crop is sugar beet and growing it for ethanol production will not only diversify farmers' income streams, but could allow them to be part of a green alternative to fossil fuels."
Why not simply grow more wheat and barley?
According to Archer, wheat and barley are competitive crops for other uses, and sugar beet is a break crop which isn't currently used in Scotland. He said: "It introduces biodiversity and is an alternative to other break crops such as rapeseed oil, which is currently causing issues with pests and disease.
"Sugar beet is actually a rotation crop for wheat, so where farmers grow wheat they can substitute sugar beet every four to seven years to improve wheat yields and soil composition.
"Based on our current assumptions and calculations, we will need approximately 140 million litres of ethanol to supply Scotland's projected E10 petrol demand. This in turn requires approximately 1.5 million tonnes of sugar beet on around 20,000ha of land," he added. "This would constitute around 3% of Scottish arable land each year. Looking to the wider market, most ethanol refineries are larger, in the 300 to 400 million litres bracket.
"A larger refinery may be able to supply ethanol further afield than just Scotland, to meet some of the wider UK demand."
The plan is to develop the new project around a cooperative principle, with farmers at the very heart of the initiative. "The most important reason is to coordinate, simplify and strengthen the supply chain for the downstream customer, who would be the refinery operator," Archer explained.
"The refinery operator, and subsequent final ethanol user, will need a secure supply above any other consideration.
"A co-op structure enables a single point of supply to the refiner, and farmers and growers can additionally benefit from shared risk and profit."
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Giulio Rimondi – The Misunderstanding
ONE PHOTO – ONE STORY
After living abroad for a number of years, photographer Giulio Rimondi returned to Italy. But what does his homeland look like nowadays? Rimondi sets out in search of his first love, discovering himself along the way. "In the end, I realized I had put together a patchy portrait of the country."
Rimondi's Italiana series in now due to appear as a book. To make this possible, the photographer has launched a crowd funding campaign. You can find more information about the project here: www.kickstarter.com.
Behind this picture lies a special episode from Rimondi's journey through his homeland:
"I arrive in Naples and meet Carmine. He tells me that a friend of his hangs out at Le Vele, the city's most infamous neighbourhood. In less than no time we make arrangements for the next day. I'm a little nervous. I have to meet his friend, Valerio, at 4pm in front of the Vela Rossa, a crumbling building under the control of Camorra, and the hub of the whole Neapolitan crime scene. I get there on time and there's no trace of Valerio. I wait for one hour leaning against a lamppost looking as ferocious as I can to deter some kids who are throwing stones from time to time.
By the time Valerio arrives my heart is in my mouth. We go inside the Vela Rossa and he starts talking to a guy and forgets about me. I look around, then decide to explore a long hallway strewn in syringes and bloodstains. An addict with the face of a dead man is lying in a corner. I'm about to go back when a guy shows up from behind a pillar, shouts something in thick Neapolitan and comes at me. We begin to fight, then I see a blade come out of the guy's pocket. "Valerio for Christ's sake come here! Run!" I scream.
The guy makes a strange face and the knife disappears. Then he opens his arms wide, hugs me, kisses me twice and scolds me softly: "Come on man, you should have told me immediately that you're with Valerio! Let me see the damage I've done," he says, grabbing my torn shirt. "Man, you should have told me you're a bro immediately! Here you go." He takes off his sweat-soaked shirt and gives it to me, revealing a colossal belly. I tell him it's not a problem and that I'm happy we clarified the misunderstanding, but he insists: "It's an original, an Ugo Bosse. Take it!". So I wear it and he wears mine, which is ripped up and doesn't cover half his belly, while his shirt reaches my knees. Then we walk back along the hallway like old friends to join Valerio, who is still chatting and hasn't noticed anything."
Giuilio Rimondi
Born in Italy in 1984, Rimondi studied literature and history of art. In his photo reportages he focusses primarily on social phenomenon and problems in the Mediterranean region. His photo journalist work has been published in the New York Times Lens, Le Monde, Repubblica and other European and Middle Eastern magazines.
www.giuliorimondi.com
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Venla Hellstedt — Producer at Tuffi Films (Finland)
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Elena Mera — Treeline Distribution (Spain)
EDN has among other things talked to Elena Mera about Treeline Distribution and the project Let me Live in the Forest, which she is executive producing. Elena Mera has a BSc in Communication and her first steps into the film industry were in Santiago de Compostela (TVE, TVG, CTV) working with directing and production... [read more]
Pailin Wedel — Filmmaker & Founder of 2050 Productions (Thailand)
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Leading south Wales solicitors sponsors Ystalyfera RFC
Posted in Sponsorship, Sport
Leading legal firm Peter Lynn & Partners is delighted to be sponsoring Ystalyfera RFC's first team's training and after-match kit for the 2015-2016 season.
The firm chose to sponsor the club not only because it has one of its main offices in the area but also because of their commitment to junior rugby in the area.
"Peter Lynn & Partners are delighted to assist a locally based club which a key part of the local community of Ystalyfera," said Peter.
"Our relationship with Ystalyfera RFC forms part of our continued commitment to grassroots rugby throughout Swansea and South Wales. We will also continue to help the people of Ystalyfera and the surrounding area to prevent legal problems while giving back to the community."
Ystalyfera RFC say they are delighted to have PL&P on board as a major sponsor for the season.
"We are very grateful for Peter Lynn & Partners' support through their sponsorship of training tops and after-match polo tops," said Ystalyfera rugby manager Damian James.
"It is great to have firm's as well known as PL&P on board and we hope that our relationship can grow of the next couple of years."


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Brampton mayor supports plan to temporarily mandate employer paid sick benefits
Province preparing second blitz on businesses to ensure compliance with current restrictions
Mississauga workers brace for Ford contract talks in Oakville
by Steve Pecar on September 9, 2020
Mississauga workers at Ford's assembly plant in Oakville are bracing for contract negotiations that could reveal the future of the auto manufacturer in Canada.
Worried about plans for the plant, Unifor, the union that represents 6,300 workers at the plant, has named the Ford Motor Co. as its strike target. Many of the workers live in Mississauga, particularly in the Clarkson area.
Traditionally the union selects just one of the big three auto makers to set the tone of all collective agreements during contract negotiations.
"I selected Ford because we think the company is prepared to reward our members, make a commitment to continue manufacturing in Canada, and has a vision that we think is in the best interest of the industry and the economy," said Jerry Dias, Unifor National President, speaking at a news conference streamed live. "Worldwide we have seen more than $300 billion dollars announced for electric vehicle production and not one dime is destined for Canada. Our members want that to change."
There has been growing fear the Oakville location could close permanently with the announcement that the Ford Edge will cease production in 2023 and with no replacement in sight.
"The Oakville assembly plant is the last of Ford's assembly plants left in Canada and has no firm product commitment beyond the current generation of the Ford Edge," said Dias. "This is a significant problem for our members and it should be a concern for all levels of government."
Unifor opened formal contract talks with Ford last month with the theme The Future is Made in Canada. The union has urged the federal government to create a comprehensive manufacturing strategy for the auto sector, suggesting that every auto assembly job creates or supports as many as 10 additional jobs throughout the economy.
For decades, it has been the union's practice to strategically choose which of the three Detroit Three auto companies the union will negotiate with first--setting a pattern agreement for auto workers in Canada. There are multiple factors considered by the union, in consultation with the master bargaining committees, in making this decision, based on two key goals: building Canada's auto industry and achieving the union's bargaining objectives.
Once an agreement with the target company is ratified by members, bargaining shifts to a second company, and then the third auto manufacturer.
Ford workers ratify contract that will see electric cars built in Oakville
Deal means jobs will remain at Oakville Ford Assembly Plant
Ottawa hints at financial plant to keep Oakville car plant operating
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St. Bernadette's Catholic Primary School is in the parish of Holy Family Church.
"Greetings to all parents and parishioners, May the peace of God be with you and your families. You are always welcome to visit our church"
Father Fretch Ballesteros (SDV) is our priest at Holy Family Church in Small Heath. The parish was founded in 1901. The church was built in 1928 and extended in 1966
Saturday Mass and Holy Hour: 4.00pm.
Sunday Morning Mass: 10.30am.
Sunday Evening Mass: 5.15pm
Tuesday - Saturday Mass 10:30am.
Weekend Mass times at Local Parishes
Parish Saturday Sunday
Holy Family 4 pm 10.30 am and 5.15 pm
St Thomas More 5.30 pm 8.30 am and 10.30 am
Corpus Christi 6 p m 10.30 am
Holy Souls 5pm 8.30 am, 10 am and 12pm (Noon)
The Holy Rosary - 9.30 am and 12 pm (Noon)
History of Holy Family Church
A brick building of the 1920s by George Drysdale, built on a Greek cross plan, and significantly enlarged in the 1960s to accommodate a large influx of (mainly Irish) Catholics, attracted by jobs in local industry. The interior is a fine barrel vaulted space. An intended campanile was not built, the result being that the townscape contribution of the church is relatively minor.
The mission in Small Heath was founded by the Revd James Wright in 1901 from St Anne's in Digbeth and Mass was said in a workshop in Green Lane until a school-chapel was built in 1903, then Mass was said in the upper floor of the new school (this was destroyed by enemy action in 1940.) Subsequently, the first Parish Primary School (Holy Family) opened its doors in Holy Family Church on 11 January 1904. The permanent church opened in 1928.
The church is orientated roughly north-south, but this description follows conventional liturgical orientation, as if the altar was to the east.
The church was built in two phases. The first, in the 1920s, was on a Greek cross plan, and was built of local purple brown bricks, with Green Westmorland slate roofs. The eastern arm of this was demolished and the nave extended to form a Latin cross, using complementary materials, in the 1960s. An intended northwest campanile was not built.
So the present church originated as a Greek cross design by George Drysdale, seating 400, and opened in August 1929 (builders William Sapcote & Sons). It was described in The Tablet as 'a quiet design …unity of character has been sought in the architecture, in the treatment of furniture and fittings, and also in the arrangement of the forecourt'.
The 1920s church had open pediments on the north and south faces with moulded brick string courses and a row of arched clerestory windows. The east end was apsidal.
The interior was an impressive barrel vaulted space, with a groin vault at the crossing. Although externally expressed, there is no internal separation into 'nave' and 'aisles', the nave is one wide space, with the barrel vaulting springing from great steel joists spanning east to west. There is a gallery and narthex at the west end, with a mosaic roundel of the Holy Family fixed to the gallery front (figure 2), possibly from the 1929 church and possibly by Pippet. In the narthex are brass panels to Fr Wright, founder of the mission, and Fr J. P. Dowling, benefactor. At the east, arched openings are located at the corners of the Greek cross. The sanctuary is placed in the eastern arm, and is dominated by a large freestanding altar, with a crucifix and tabernacle in the apse. Side chapels were placed at either side. There is a large organ of 1903 by Steele & Keay of Burslem, acquired c.1993 from Pitts Hill Methodist Church, Stoke.
The forecourt was developed in the 1960s when, following a large influx of (mainly Irish) Catholics drawn by jobs in local industry: Birmingham Small Arms;the Chrysler Factory; JJ Gallagher the Builder. The local population used to say that they were either coming out the Blues ground or Holy Family Church. And so the priest, Father O'Keefe extended the church in 1966, and that's why it is so big now. The nave was extended to form a Latin cross plan, increasing the seating capacity to approximately 1,000. The architect for the additions was J. T. Lynch of Jennings, Homer & Lynch, and the extended church was blessed on 25 October, 1967. New sacristies, meeting rooms, a cry room and confessionals were also built, but an intended 100ft campanile was never realised. The total cost was for the built additions was about £120,000. In that period a second Parish Primary School was built on Hob Moor Road, (St Bernadette's) which served the Irish community. Previously, St Benedict's Church of England School had been used for some of the children because of the enormous numbers.
The 1960s additions were a modern and simplified version of the original work. The west front had a brick pilaster/piers at the corners and an open pediment framing a large central 'feature panel' faced in Portland stone. A crucifix was placed against this. Below this, solid oak entrance doors were placed beneath a flat canopy, with windows on either side. Flanking the entrance, low flat-roofed wings with recessed stone faced bays incorporating windows were presumably built as the baptistery and a side entrance. Above these, a round arched window on either side lit an internal gallery. Beyond this were raised (but not as high as the nave) and plain 'aisle' walls, the 'aisles' lit by one rectangular window per bay.
The present church was consecrated on 10 June 1976.


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6 cities that nearly landed an MLB team
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MLB expansion is always a tantalizing topic because it allows us to dream up new possibilities. New stadiums, new nicknames, new logos, new rivalries. People in baseball always banter about which cities would be the best fits for a big league ballclub, be it returning to Montreal or setting up shop in Las Vegas, Nashville, San Antonio, Charlotte, Portland, Vancouver or wherever else people are fixing to put a franchise.
Indeed, for as long as MLB has existed, there have been entities interested in bringing it to new locations. The current crop of 30 clubs features the survivor stories.
Just a few examples: Seattle received and lost an expansion franchise in 1969, only to get another crack at expansion in 1977. Milwaukee lost the Brewers and the Braves, only to get the Brewers back by swiping Seattle's original franchise. The Rays emanated from a particularly long and arduous effort to bring baseball to Tampa Bay. And the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex was rejected in multiple expansion bids before the Washington Senators moved and became the Rangers prior to the 1972 season.
But what about the cities that never landed a club (at least not yet)?
Limiting ourselves to possible AL and NL entries in the modern era (since 1901), here are a handful that were seriously considered at one point or another but didn't stick the landing.
You know the A's moved from Kansas City to Oakland prior to the 1968 season. But you might not be aware of the various other A's relocation possibilities that preceded that change of residence.
Frustrated with his lease at city-owned Kansas City Municipal Stadium, A's owner Charlie Finley looked into various relocation possibilities. A bid to move to Dallas was dismissed by the other AL owners in 1962. A move to either Seattle or Milwaukee was also discussed. Finley even floated the (completely absurd and unlikely) possibility of moving the team to tiny Peculiar, Mo., 45 minutes south of Kansas City, and erecting temporary stands in a cow pasture.
More serious was the idea of moving the A's to the Bluegrass State.
Finley met with Louisville mayor William Cowger and Kentucky governor Edward Breathitt and announced he had signed a two-year lease agreement for his team to use Fairgrounds Stadium as its home base. Again, the AL owners shot this down. When Finley pivoted to a 20-year agreement with the city of Oakland to move the team to a yet-to-be-constructed stadium, they shot that down, too, and threatened to expel Finley from the league if he didn't agree to what they deemed to be a fair lease extension offer from Kansas City.
Finley ultimately relented and signed the four-year lease, but, after it expired in 1967, the league and owners finally allowed him to pack up and head to Oakland. Alas, Louisville got left behind. But the home of Louisville Slugger has been home to several Negro League teams, as well as the Minor League Colonels. The Minor League franchise now known as the Louisville Bats has been in operation since 1982.
Buffalo, N.Y.
Buffalo did have an MLB team -- on loan -- when the Blue Jays played a combined 49 "home" games at Sahlen Field, home of the Triple-A Bisons (who have been in existence since 1979), in the pandemic-altered seasons of 2020 and '21. That added to the baseball annals of a city that had a National League franchise -- the original Bisons -- from 1879-85, another variation of the Bisons in the AL in 1900 (before it became a Major League the following year), as well as the BufFeds and Blues in 1914-15 in the Federal League (which is recognized as a Major League).
And Buffalo's War Memorial Stadium was used as the home of the fictitious New York Knights in the filming of "The Natural," which has to count for something.
But several efforts to launch an AL or NL franchise based in Buffalo in the modern era have been rebuffed. As detailed in this story on the volatile early years of the Padres, Buffalo initially had strong support among NL owners to receive one of two expansion franchises in 1969, but some last-minute politicking and arm-twisting swung that vote for San Diego.
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In the mid-1980s, Buffalo built Sahlen Field (originally known as Pilot Field) with Major League amenities in the hopes of securing a Major League franchise but missed out on the expansion opportunities that instead went to Denver (Rockies) and Miami (Marlins) for the 1993 season and Arizona (D-backs) and St. Petersburg (Rays) for the 1998 season.
Indianapolis has a rich baseball history that dates back to the 1870s, when the Indianapolis Blues were a National League franchise. The Indianapolis Indians (currently the Pirates' Triple-A affiliate) were first launched as an American Association franchise way back in 1902. Indianapolis also had a Negro League franchise -- the Clowns -- that began in the 1930s and was the last Negro League team to disband in the 1980s.
In 1985, a group of local Indianapolis investors was hopeful enough of landing an MLB team -- either via relocation (the Pirates and A's were for sale) or expansion -- that they held a news conference to announce a team name. The NFL's Colts had moved to Indianapolis the year before, the city's convention business had taken off and there was enough fan fervor to secure about 12,000 season-ticket deposits.
But the Indianapolis Arrows, as they were to be called, never took flight. It was determined that repurposing the Hoosier Dome for baseball would be a challenge, and raising the funds for a new facility was deemed an impossibility. The close geographic range to Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago also met resistance from owners of those clubs.
This was not the first time Indianapolis was rejected. Indianapolis, Kansas City, Minneapolis and the aforementioned Buffalo all had entries in the 1900 American League, which was a Minor League at the time. Those four clubs were all dropped when the league reorganized as a Major League for 1901. Kansas City and Minneapolis eventually made it back to the AL, but, unfortunately, Indianapolis and Buffalo never did.
Arlington, Va.
In the years before the Expos moved to D.C. and were rebranded as the Nationals, a serious -- and nearly successful -- effort was made to bring MLB across the river from the nation's capital.
Representatives from Northern Virginia first made a pitch to the MLB powers that be in 1990, proposing stadium sites in Pentagon City. The league went forward instead with expansion clubs in Miami and Denver in 1993, but an impression had been made. And when the expansion conversation began again in 1995, Arlington emerged as one of four finalists for two new teams … only to lose out to Phoenix and St. Petersburg.
Bill Collins, head of the Virginia Baseball Club that had made one of the expansion pitches, went on to make efforts to purchase the Astros (in 1998) and the Expos (in 1999) and move them to Arlington, but those deals ultimately fell through. When MLB took control of the Expos and looked into options for moving the team, Arlington again made its pitch, proposing a stadium right on the Potomac with beautiful views of D.C. The plan had the support of Arlington County Board chairman Charles P. Monroe. But Monroe's sudden death from an aneurysm in early 2003 caused the board to change course. D.C. instead emerged with the Expos.
Orlando, Fla.
Like Arlington, Orlando was passed over in the final selections for 1998 expansion. Orlando had made a real push to try to land a team, passing a tourist tax on hotel rooms that would have gone toward the construction of a stadium.
But while the final decision was made in March 1995, the deck seemed stacked against Orlando months earlier. There was no way both franchises would be awarded to central Florida, of course, and Tampa Bay entities had made six attempts in the previous 18 years to buy an MLB team and move it to St. Petersburg, including a move of the San Francisco Giants (yes, really) that was nixed by baseball's owners in 1992.
So basically, the owners might have felt like Tampa Bay was owed a team, and the leaders of the effort to bring baseball to Tampa Bay had a leg up on the planning and stumping.
In late 2019, Orlando Magic co-founder Pat Williams held a press conference announcing his intention of creating an MLB team known as the "Dreamers," but it remains a dream for now.
The Rays' recent proposal of splitting their home games between Tampa Bay and Montreal is unusual … but not without precedent.
In 1971, Cleveland owner Vernon Stouffer was strapped for cash and made an agreement with the Louisiana Superdome Commission for the Indians to play up to 30 games a year for 25 years in New Orleans. American businessman David Dixon had achieved funding for the Superdome in an effort to lure an NFL franchise to the Big Easy, but it was conceptualized to be functional for baseball and basketball, as well.
Dixon and Stouffer made their pitch to AL president Joe Cronin and the other owners, but it didn't pass.
"If you move 30 games to New Orleans, you're going to alienate the people in Cleveland and make a bad situation worse," one owner said.
That owner was the A's Charlie Finley, who said he would back the move only if the Indians moved to New Orleans full-time. That was a process Finley knew a bit about.


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Trial over Yanukovych to kick off May 4
The ousted ex-president of Ukraine is to be judged in absentia for high treason and otehr crimes against the state
Three judges will be considering the case of Viktor Yanukovych, the ousted ex-president of Ukraine. Their names are Ivan Devyatko, Dmytro Kambulov and Maksym Titov. They are the same judges who recently examined the case of former fighters of Tornado battalion, who were involved in war crimes during the Donbas conflict.
The first hearing in Yanukovych's case is slated for May 4. The former head of the state is charged with high treason; prosecution found evidence, which confirmed that Yanukovych asked his Russian counterpart Putin to send his regular troops to Ukraine.
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Conducted by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate; founded in 1848. It was incorporated in 1849 under the title of the "College of Bytown," thus taking the original name of the city chosen in 1866 as the capital of the Dominion of Canada, and now known as Ottawa. The title in question was changed in 1861 to that of the "College of Ottawa", and the power of granting degrees was conferred on the institution by civil charter in 1866. The university thus began its complete secular existence with the confederation of the Canadian Provinces, and has grown with the growth of the Dominion. Pope Leo XIII, by Brief of 5 February, 1889, raised the College and the State University of Ottawa to the rank of a Catholic University. The Brief expresses the will of the Holy See that the Archbishop of Ottawa shall be ex officio Apostolic chancellor of the university, and that he and the "other bishops of the [ecclesiastical] provinces of Ottawa and Toronto who shall affiliate their seminaries and colleges and other similar institutions with the aforesaid university, do watch over the preservation of a correct and sound doctrine in the same." It may be added that the institution has also been of late years placed among the number of Colonial and Indian universities, whose students are entitled to certain privileges accorded by a statute of the University of Oxford, passed in 1887.
Situated in the capital of the Dominion, and in a district which is largely French in population, the University of Ottawa offers parallel courses in English and French. It is left to the choice of parents and students to take the classical course in one or other of the two languages. The university is governed by a chancellor, rector, vice-rector, senate, and council of administration. The faculties so far organized are those of: (1) theology, (2) law, this being an examining body only, according to certain provisions and regulations made, in this regard, by the provincial legislature of Ontario, (3) philosophy, and (4) arts. Other departments are the collegiate course and the commercial course, the former leading to matriculation which admits to the arts course in Canadian universities and to technical schools. The course in arts, after matriculation, covers four years. In theology a course of four years is provided, and embraces all the branches of ecclesiastical science usually taught in Catholic seminaries. The university has, in a separate building known as the Science Hall, well-equipped physical, chemical, and mineralogical laboratories, also a natural history museum and excellent numismatic and conchological collections.
On 2 December, 1903, fire totally destroyed the main building, a structure covering the greater part of a block 400 feet by 200. The library of the university, consisting of over 30,000 volumes, was wholly destroyed, but has been replaced, in great part, largely by donations.
The teaching staff consists of fifty professors and instructors. The number of students in 1909-10 was 591; of these 350 were in residence in the Theological Building, or Scholasticate of the Oblate Fathers, the Collegiate Building or Juniorate, and the New Arts Building. Students whose homes are not in Ottawa are required to live in the University buildings. Private rooms are provided. The University Calendar gives a long list of graduates and alumni, including names of men prominent in every walk of Canadian life.
The Science Hall, completed in 1901, and the New Arts Building erected to replace the building destroyed in 1903, are fire-proof structures and are among the best-equipped college buildings in Canada. The University owns ten acres of property in the city.
Like other seats of learning in Canada, the university lately began to offer the advantages of an extra-mural course to those who desire to pursue collegiate studies, but who are unable to attend its lectures. Extra-mural students are allowed to do the work of the arts course, and to present themselves for examinations. Before being registered, candidates for a degree must pass the matriculation, or an examination accepted by the senate as equivalent. Students are to attend the university for the latter part of the course, if at all possible.
The "Calendar" and "Annuaire", published annually by the university, give detailed information in regard to courses of study, conditions of admission, examinations, and fees in all departments. The "University of Ottawa Review", issued monthly and forming an annual volume of from four to five hundred pages, is the organ of the students.
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